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Genetic diversity of Hepatozoon spp. in coyotes from the south-central United States.
The Journal of parasitology - 1 Apr 2013
Starkey Lindsay A, Panciera Roger J, Paras Kelsey, Allen Kelly E, Reiskind Michael H, Reichard Mason V, Johnson Eileen M, Little Susan E
Abstract excerpt
To better define the strains and species of Hepatozoon that infect coyotes in the south-central United States, whole blood and muscle samples were collected from 44 coyotes from 6 locations in Oklahoma and Texas. Samples were evaluated by a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers amplifying a variable region of the apicomplexan 18S rRNA gene as well as histopathology (muscle only) for presence of...
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